Retiring longtime appliance servicer Al Elkin believes that today, throughout the Maine woods, there are still hundreds, if not thousands, of Servels still ticking in remote cabins and sporting camps — a testimonial to their fabled reliability, writes columnist V. Paul Reynolds.

“No trespassing” signs are showing up in some of columnist V. Paul Reynolds’ favorite hunting spots, he writes.

Columnist V. Paul Reynolds writes that the photo-filled book is a must-read for experienced fly anglers and novices alike.

With the new doe system in play, and other factors, the total harvest figure is likely to hover close to 44,000 animals, writes columnist V. Paul Reynolds.

As anyone who spends any time in the deer woods knows, there is always a lesson, always a learning experience, writes V. Paul Reynolds. And it is almost always fun, in spite of the cold, the deerless days, the biting wind, and the endless hours of high anticipation.

Columnist V. Paul Reynolds writes that the more than 400 pages make up a “book of a lifetime for any serious upland hunter.”

Columnist V. Paul Reynolds and his hunting crew harmed not one moose during a recent trip, but not the same can be said for the up-county grouse, he writes.

100 years ago this month, November 1922, two Maine Game Wardens were last seen alive near Big Bog in northern Maine.

Oddly enough, columnist V. Paul Reynolds writes, in all of these years, he has no recollection of deer camp conversation that raised the bedrock question: why do we hunt?